Wolf Hall - Netflix

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Historical drama chronicling the rise of Thomas Cromwell, the son of a
humble blacksmith who became King Henry VIII's chief minister, as he
navigated the corridors of power in the Tudor court

Type: Scripted

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 60 minutes

Premier: 2015-01-21

Wolf Hall - Wulfhall - Netflix

Wulfhall or Wolfhall is an early 17th-century manor house in Burbage,
Wiltshire, England. A previous manor house on the same site, in the
parish of Great Bedwyn, was the seat of the Seymour family, a member of
which, Jane Seymour, was Queen to King Henry VIII.

Wolf Hall - Late medieval and Tudor manor house - Netflix

The medieval manor house was probably a timber framed double courtyard
house, incorporating a tower (demolished 1569), a long gallery and a
chapel. The Seymours reached the peak of their influence in the 16th
century, when Jane Seymour became the third wife of King Henry VIII. Her
son became Edward VI and ruled England from 1547 to 1553. At the
beginning of Edward's reign, he was nine years old and his eldest uncle,
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, was Lord High Protector of
England, while another uncle, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of
Sudeley, married Henry VIII's widow, Catherine Parr. Both Edward and
Thomas Seymour were eventually executed for treason. Henry VIII stayed
at Wulfhall during his royal progress of 1535. This may have been when
he first courted Jane Seymour, leading eventually to the decision to
execute his second wife, Anne Boleyn following her failure to produce a
son and heir. There is a belief arising from the writing of
nineteenth-century antiquary John Britton that Henry and Jane held a
wedding feast in the Long Barn at Wulfhall. They were in fact married in
the Queen's Closet at Whitehall Palace in London. Edward Seymour desired
grander accommodation than Wulfhall could provide, and he intended to
replace the house with a new mansion on a nearby hill known as Bedwyn
Brail, with design and construction supervised by his steward, Sir John
Thynne, founder of Longleat House. A correspondence survives, dated
between November 1548 and June 1549, which shows Thynne directing the
plans. The mansion was unfinished when Seymour fell from power, and was
abandoned after his execution in January 1552. His son Edward was unable
to maintain Wulfhall, which rapidly deteriorated. Wulfhall was “derelict
and abandoned after 1571” as the family had relocated to nearby
Tottenham Park. It was used as accommodation for servants until
considerably reduced in size in the 1660s and finally demolished in
1723. A few ruins survived until the beginning of the 20th century, but
nothing now remains. The barn, where King Henry and Queen Jane
supposedly held a feast to celebrate their marriage, burnt down in the
1920s.